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Fall for the Book will bring renowned writers Celeste Ng and Gary Larson to the George Mason University Fairfax Campus for this year's Fall for the Book festival.

Stillhouse Press is thrilled to announce that Amy Stuber’s debut short story collection, SAD GROWNUPS has been awarded the 2025 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Publicized at the 61st annual PEN America Literary Awards on May 8, this remarkable recognition establishes Stuber as an exciting new voice in fiction—and marks a major milestone for Stillhouse Press and the alumni, graduate, and undergraduate students, each of whom assisted in making this prodigious accolade possible.

The George Mason University Alpha Omega Xi Chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta National English Honor Society is open for applications! This honor society is open to undergraduate and graduate students.

The Folger Shakespeare Library will reopen on Friday, June 21, 2024 after a four-year renovation and will be hosting Welcome Back events for researchers on June 28th. Additionally, Folger will be accepting applications to their upcoming scholarly programs. The application deadline is July 8th.

Click here to learn about upper-division (300- and 400-level) English and Creative Writing classes for fall.

Click here to see the fall Mason Core Literature and Screen Cultures classes in English.

Beloved poet Nikki Giovanni wows an audience of 350 people at the Cheuse Center’s second annual Busboys and Poets Lecture, urging them to live on their own terms, with fearless confidence.

Jessica Hurley, Department of English, participated in a two-part symposium focused on the intersection of contemporary art, militarized ecologies and nuclear nationalism.